2013-09-17

Knopflerfish 5 beta-1 released, KF is getting ready for OSGi R5

We are happy to announce the release of Knopflerfish 5.0.0.beta-1. This is the first beta release of KF5, the next major release of
Knopflerfish, designed to be compliant with the OSGi R5
specifications. The
KF5 overview page
presents an overview of OSGi R5 and the current status
of KF5.

New features in OSGi R5 include the Resource API, OSGi namespace
definition, repository service, resolver service and sub-systems
to name a few. For KF users the most important changes in KF5 are:

Knopflerfish OSGi framework updated to R5

Repository services added. This is still
work i progress

Configuration Admin has a new concept of targeted PIDs as well as API
changes. The KF OSGi CM bundle has been updated accordingly

Other Knopflerfish bundles, e.g. desktop, console commands etc have
been update to use and reflect the new R5 APIs.